Looking Back: A Glimpse Through The Chronicle’s Files May 9, 2004 20 Years Ago, May 9, 1984 Two members of The Dalles Area Jaycees have been installed as Jaycee International Senators, the highest honor that can go to members of the young men’s organization. Receiving the honor during the past weekend were Jim Robinson and Dave Huntington. The award gives recipients lifetime memberships at the Jaycee International level. Jaycees membership normal ends at age 36. The Judson Baptist Royals ended their 1984 baseball campaign Monday with a 6-5 loss at Western Oregon College in Monmouth [Oregon]. The Royals ended with a 14-29 record but coach Dennis Rasmussen was pleased anyway. Oregon State’s record walleye has been edged out again, this time by two ounces. Ron Hillar of Portland took the 14-pound, 14 ounce fish from the Columbia River near Rufus [Oregon] on April 10. Hillar was fishing with Rufus guide Mike Jones and caught the 32 Œ ounce fish on a green and yellow jig adorned with a night crawler. 40 Years Ago, May 9, 1964 Christ Osborn of Dufur [Oregon], only a bit more excited than his wife, delivered his own son – their third – at the family home in Dufur this week. They walked out of the Mid-Columbia hospital the next afternoon with young Christopher Owen, who weighed six pounds, 13 ounces, and is doing fine. Burglaries under investigation for the past two weeks are believed solved with identification of a large group including juveniles and adults involved in various extents in the theft of beer and an apparently unrelated beer party raided by the city police, District Attorney Don Turner said Friday. Solved were two burglaries at East Hill Food Center. The first on April 25, yielded 16 cases of beer and the second on April 27 an additional dozen cases, Turner said. Entry was made by a key that someone had obtained earlier. The thefts occurred from a cooler at the back of the store. A 20-year-old from The Dalles has been charged and eight juveniles were involved in the first burglary and four persons over 18 and six juveniles are believed involved in the second one. 60 Years Ago, May 9, 1944 A report submitted to the city council last night by Police Chief Frank Heater showed that 206 arrests were made here in the month of April. Of this total, 145 were on drunk charges. Investigation in which no arrests were made totaled 132. A total of $1040 was paid in fines. Six cases of vagrancy were reported. 80 Years Ago, May 9, 1924 Sale of the Dufur [Oregon] stage line, which for years has been operated by Brown and Son to D.M. Pierce was announced today. Brown & Son recently inaugurated a Dalles-Bend stage line and have given up the shorter run. Mr. Pierce stated this afternoon that he would maintain the same schedules on the run that had been fixed before. Pierce will carry the mail between The Dalles and Dufur as has been done in the past by Brown, the mail contract going to Pierce with the purchase of the stage line. Several children from the Chenowith and Three Mile districts are taking eighth grade examinations today in the office of County Superintendent A.E. Gronewald. These districts have already started the summer vacation. 100 Years Ago, May 9, 1904 George Hurt, the man who shot and killed P.A. Crisman a week ago and came to Prineville [Oregon] and gave himself up, was exonerated by the jury empaneled to look into the case and Hurt’s neighbors made up a purse of $50 as a token of good will in ridding the county of a dangerous lunatic and presented it to him. No witnesses were sworn. – REVIEW John W. Clarno was very painfully and seriously hurt at his ranch Wednesday afternoon being kicked in the face by a horse. The horse was shod and the calks made ugly wounds, one striking on the lower jaw, shattering the bone, the other penetrating and mangling the cheek. Several small arteries were severed. Dr. King was summoned and spent Wednesday night with Mr. Clarno, who was still unconscious when the doctor left Thursday morning – HERALD. Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser Member of Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society c/o The Dalles/Wasco County Public Library 722 Court Street The Dalles, Oregon 97058 http://community.gorge.net/genealogy [Note: new website address] Browse http://historysavers.com/orwasco/ recently updated information regarding Wasco County - Links are at the bottom of page http://searches.rootsweb.com/ "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson Incoming and Outgoing mail protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program